Galerie Richard is an international art gallery that specializes in

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founded in 1989 by Jean-Luc and Takako Richard. It is located at 121 Orchard Street on the Lower East Side of New York City and in

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at 74, rue de Turenne. The gallery represents emerging and established artists from various countries. It is a member of the Professional Committee of Art Galleries and participates in international

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. It also publishes a collection of monographs on various artists and their work.

History

Jean-Luc and Takako Richard opened their first gallery in September 1989 under the name of Galerie OZ in the Bastille area of Paris. Galerie Oz first promoted new

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with Vera Molnar and Artus Pixel. Galerie OZ established its reputation by bringing together Barocco artists such as Arch Connelly, Rhonda Zwillinger, Christopher Tanner, Pepon Osorio, for the first time in Paris. Galerie OZ also represented Robert Groborne, Milan Kunc, Joost Van den Toorn,

Robert Kushner Robert Kushner(; born 1949, Pasadena, CA) is an American contemporary painter who is known especially for his involvement in Pattern and Decoration. He has been called "a founder" of that artistic movement. In addition to painting, Kushner creates ...

, Choi Jeong Hwa,

Attila Richard Lukacs Attila Richard Lukács (born 1962) is a Canadian artist. Lukács gained international attention via his ''E-werk'' series—a collection of very large figure paintings that he created in the 1980s and 90s, while living in Berlin. The paintings f ...

, Christophe Avella-Bagur, Stefan Hoenerloh, Laszlo Feher and Rainer Gross. Additionally, Galerie OZ exhibited photographers such as

Erwin Olaf Erwin Olaf Springveld (born 2 July 1959), professionally known as Erwin Olaf, is a Dutch photographer from Hilversum. Time (magazine), Time magazine described his work as straddling "the worlds of commercial, art and fashion photography at once. ...

Bae Bien-u Bae Bien-u (born May 22, 1950) is a South Korean photographer. He is a professor in Seoul Institute of the Arts. Early life and career Bae was born in Suncheon and grew up in Yeosu, Jeollanam-do in 1950, and graduated from Hongik University's ...

, and

Jacqueline Hassink Jacqueline Hassink (15 July 1966 – 22 November 2018) was a Dutch visual artist based in New York City.Wu, Daven (Feb 6, 2012Book: The Table of Power 2, by Jacqueline Hassink Wallpaper Early life and education Hassink was born in Enschede, the ...

. In 2002, the gallery moved to Saint-Louis Island, adopted the new name of Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard as well as a new exhibition program that focused on new painting at a time when painting was considered as dead. The gallery mostly organized solo shows with artists Shirley Kaneda, Paul Henry Ramirez, Tim Bavington, Carl Fudge, Kiyoshi Nakagami, Adam Ross,

Beverly Fishman Beverly Fishman (born 1955, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American painter and sculptor whose work explores science, medicine, and the body. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a National Academy of Design Academician, an Anonymous Was a Woman awardee ...

, Yuichi Higashionna, Alice Stepanek & Steven Maslin, Christoph Wedding and Scott Anderson. In 2006, the gallery moved to its current Parisian location at 74, rue de Turenne in Le Marais. In 2007, the gallery doubled its space to a 400-square-meter exhibition space and added the following artists: Benjamin Edwards, Pedro Barbeito, Sven-Ole Frahm,

Joseph Nechvatal Joseph Nechvatal (born January 15, 1951) is an American post-conceptual digital artist and art theoretician who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer animations, often using custom-created computer viruses. Life and work Joseph Ne ...

and Marcus Sendlinger. The gallery also exhibited established artists like

Frank Stella Frank Philip Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. Stella lives and works in New York City. Biography Frank Stella was born in Ma ...

Bram Bogart Bram Bogart (July 12, 1921 – May 2, 2012) was a Belgian expressionist painter most closely associated with the COBRA group. Early life and education Abraham van den Boogaart was born in Delft, the Netherlands, the son of Abraham van den Boogaa ...

Ron Gorchov Ron Gorchov (April 5, 1930 – August 18, 2020) was an American artist. He was known for his colorful, abstract paintings on curved canvases. In the late 1960s, he began making oil-on-linen paintings on distinctive saddle-like stretchers, at once ...

, Alain Kirili and

Judy Pfaff Judy Pfaff (born 1946) is an American artist known mainly for installation art and sculptures, though she also produces paintings and prints. Pfaff has received numerous awards for her work, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundati ...

. In the exhibition "The Incomplete - Paris" the gallery featured 28 artists collected by Hubert Neumann. In 2011, Galerie Richard opened a second gallery in Chelsea, New York. On this date, the gallery name was changed to Galerie Richard.

Takesada Matsutani is a Japanese avant-garde artist based in Paris and Nishinomiya. Active as a painter since the 1950s, Matsutani's practice has also included object-based sculpture, printmaking and installation. Matsutani was a member of the Gutai Art Associatio ...

had a retrospective exhibition in Paris in 2012 and his first solo and first retrospective exhibition in New York in 2013 during the Guggenheim Gutai exhibition. In addition to Olaf Rauh, the gallery developed a program with figurative digital photography including Dionisio González from 2012, Yang Yi from 2013, Lauren Marsolier from 2014, and Li Wei from 2015. Peter Rogiers, William Bradley, and Norio Imai joined the two galleries. They organized the Norio Imai retrospective exhibitions in New York in 2014 and in Paris in 2015. In 2014 Galerie Richard celebrated a 25th year anniversary by organizing an extensive exhibition of 40 exhibited artists. The same year the gallery presented a provocative duo show

John Armleder John Armleder (born 1948, in Geneva) is a Swiss performance artist, painter, sculptor, critic, and curator. His work is based on his involvement with Fluxus in the 1960s and 1970s, when he created performance art pieces, installations and collecti ...

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in New York, Paris and at the Untitled Art fair in Miami. In 2015 the New York gallery moved to 121 Orchard Street on The Lower East Side. Artists represented include

, Stefan Hoenerloh,

and Li Wei.
Artists represented by Galerie Richard

References

External links

Galerie Richard website
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